Genre of Arabic poetry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hamasah (Arabic: حماسة; lit.'Valour') is a genre of Arabic poetry that "recounts chivalrous exploits in the context of military glories and victories".[1]
Al-Ḥamāsah al-muḥdathah (The Modern Ḥamāsah) by Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004).
Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī known to have compiled a Ḥamāsah.
Al-Shantamarī (d. 476/1083) wrote a Ḥamāsah that is not to be confused with his commentary on the Ḥamāsah of Abū Tammām.
Al-Shāṭibī (d. 547/1152) compiled a Ḥamāsah.
Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī al-Bayyāsī (d. 653/1255) compiled a Ḥamāsah.
Ḥamāsat al-muḥdathīn (The Ḥamāsah of the Modern Poets) by * Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Hāshim al-Khālidī (d. 380/990) and Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd b. Hāshim (d. 390/999).
Orfali, Bilal (1 January 2012). "A Sketch Map of Arabic Poetry Anthologies up to the Fall of Baghdad". Journal of Arabic Literature. 43 (1): 29–59. doi:10.1163/157006412X629737.
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